jdsnoddy
01-29-2020, 02:50 PM
This is a very interesting story. One possible candidate might be C5691631 or 1631:
Jan 13 at 10:35 PM
CaptainMyCaptain 2,378
At 26, John Aiden was a young man on the move.
Fourth in his class at Lewis and Clark College, the world was his oyster. His male friends were impressed with the way he could move amongst a crowd with a confidence that impressed others. His female friends were taken aback by his tousled honey blond hair, longer than it should have been for the times, and the million dollar smile worthy of a game show host.
Maybe it was the smile that made them push him to submit an application to appear on an actual game show, ?The $68,000 Question? on UBS in October of 1955.
A resume and a photograph were mailed in during a weak moment brought on by eye batting Twenty-Something females and several Blitz-Weinhards brews from a favored Portland pub. The producers of ?The Question? we?re immediately taken by the smile. The resume proved he had at least a little something to back-up the dental work. He won a spot on the show.
He did not disappoint. Each episode he was on sent the ratings just a tad bit higher. They knew a good thing when they saw it and so did he.
Before long they were feeding him the questions ahead of time. As the ratings continued to climb, they fed him the answers. He proved to be the biggest winner in the short history of the show.
In the middle of the press tour that followed he called Landmark Lincoln and Continental back home in Portland and special ordered a brand new ?56 Continental Mark II much like the one featured here. It was the most expensive order they had ever taken on the most expensive car America had to offer.
Young Mr. Aiden was a force to be reckoned with. He booked a flight back home out of New York on United, Flight #629, to Portland with one stop in Denver on the way. He boarded the ?Denver Mainliner? at LaGuardia.
In Denver a Mrs. Graham sat down next to him for the continued flight to Portland. As the flight took off from Stapleton Airport, Captain Lee Hall welcomed them all onboard. Seven minutes later, the dynamite Mrs. Graham?s son had placed in her luggage exploded, sending the DC6B straight down for an unscheduled (and final) stop in Longmont, CO. Aiden, Graham, Fall, and the other thirty-six souls on board perished.
The Mark II, never picked up, was sold at a loss, beautiful though it was, to someone who never knew the history. She enjoyed the car the rest of her life.
Within months Jack Gilbert Graham was investigated, arrested,tried, and executed for the murder of his untimely demise of his mother.
Jan 13 at 10:35 PM
CaptainMyCaptain 2,378
At 26, John Aiden was a young man on the move.
Fourth in his class at Lewis and Clark College, the world was his oyster. His male friends were impressed with the way he could move amongst a crowd with a confidence that impressed others. His female friends were taken aback by his tousled honey blond hair, longer than it should have been for the times, and the million dollar smile worthy of a game show host.
Maybe it was the smile that made them push him to submit an application to appear on an actual game show, ?The $68,000 Question? on UBS in October of 1955.
A resume and a photograph were mailed in during a weak moment brought on by eye batting Twenty-Something females and several Blitz-Weinhards brews from a favored Portland pub. The producers of ?The Question? we?re immediately taken by the smile. The resume proved he had at least a little something to back-up the dental work. He won a spot on the show.
He did not disappoint. Each episode he was on sent the ratings just a tad bit higher. They knew a good thing when they saw it and so did he.
Before long they were feeding him the questions ahead of time. As the ratings continued to climb, they fed him the answers. He proved to be the biggest winner in the short history of the show.
In the middle of the press tour that followed he called Landmark Lincoln and Continental back home in Portland and special ordered a brand new ?56 Continental Mark II much like the one featured here. It was the most expensive order they had ever taken on the most expensive car America had to offer.
Young Mr. Aiden was a force to be reckoned with. He booked a flight back home out of New York on United, Flight #629, to Portland with one stop in Denver on the way. He boarded the ?Denver Mainliner? at LaGuardia.
In Denver a Mrs. Graham sat down next to him for the continued flight to Portland. As the flight took off from Stapleton Airport, Captain Lee Hall welcomed them all onboard. Seven minutes later, the dynamite Mrs. Graham?s son had placed in her luggage exploded, sending the DC6B straight down for an unscheduled (and final) stop in Longmont, CO. Aiden, Graham, Fall, and the other thirty-six souls on board perished.
The Mark II, never picked up, was sold at a loss, beautiful though it was, to someone who never knew the history. She enjoyed the car the rest of her life.
Within months Jack Gilbert Graham was investigated, arrested,tried, and executed for the murder of his untimely demise of his mother.